{"id":9651,"date":"2020-01-02T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=9651"},"modified":"2021-12-03T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:41:23","slug":"augsburgs-womens-new-wrestling-team-featured-in-mpls-st-paul-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/02\/augsburgs-womens-new-wrestling-team-featured-in-mpls-st-paul-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg&#8217;s Women&#8217;s New Wrestling Team Featured in Mpls.St.Paul Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/02\/112519-gabby-skidmore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9646 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/02\/112519-gabby-skidmore-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Augsburg's Women's Wrestling\" width=\"222\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/02\/112519-gabby-skidmore-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/02\/112519-gabby-skidmore-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/02\/112519-gabby-skidmore-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/02\/112519-gabby-skidmore.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>Augsburg&#8217;s brand new women&#8217;s wrestling team is already getting noticed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like there&#8217;s a lot of stigma that it&#8217;s not a girls sport,\u201d Bel Snyder &#8217;23 told Mpls.St.Paul Magazine. \u201cThat it shouldn&#8217;t be that rough or anything. But I don&#8217;t think people understand that most of the time girls aren&#8217;t wrestling to make a statement about girls doing something. It&#8217;s not supposed to be like that. You&#8217;re wrestling because you want to be a wrestler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article highlights the struggles that the team members faced growing up playing a sport that is generally associated with men. These Auggies are already breaking down barriers in the sport. Read the full article on the\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: white;\" href=\"http:\/\/mspmag.com\/arts-and-culture\/augsburg-womens-wrestling-team\/\">Mpls.St.Paul Magazine website.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg&#8217;s brand new women&#8217;s wrestling team is already getting noticed. \u201cI feel like there&#8217;s a lot of stigma that it&#8217;s not a girls sport,\u201d Bel Snyder &#8217;23 told Mpls.St.Paul Magazine. \u201cThat it shouldn&#8217;t be that rough or anything. But I don&#8217;t think people understand that most of the time girls aren&#8217;t wrestling to make a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9651"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10750,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions\/10750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}